By Barrientos                                         S.B. No. 1760
         76R7402 GCH-D                           
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to a pay raise for state employees.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1.  Except as provided by Section 2 of this Act, each
 1-5     full-time employee of a state agency is entitled to an increase in
 1-6     the employee's gross salary of $200 a month for each month of the
 1-7     state fiscal year beginning September 1, 1999, and an increase of
 1-8     an additional $200 a month for each month of the state fiscal year
 1-9     beginning September 1, 2000.
1-10           SECTION 2.  (a)  This Act does not apply to a member of the
1-11     legislature, a member of the faculty of an institution of higher
1-12     education as defined by Section 61.003, Education Code, or a member
1-13     of a board, commission, or other governing body of a state agency
1-14     who may receive a per diem or expense reimbursement but not a
1-15     salary for full-time employment.
1-16           (b)  A person employed as a part-time employee of a state
1-17     agency is entitled  to an increase in the employee's gross salary
1-18     for the state fiscal biennium beginning September 1, 1999, in an
1-19     amount that is proportional to the ratio between the number of
1-20     hours the employee works and the number of hours required of a
1-21     full-time employee.
1-22           SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-23           SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-24     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
 2-1     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
 2-2     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 2-3     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.